Halle Bailey

Earth has four of her ten planets, with two apiece in fire, air and water. Earth builds steadily, and no other element here has the numbers to argue with it. Bailey sings and acts, and the record says she played Ariel in The Little Mermaid, which is a part done in song as much as on camera.

The Sun sits on the seventh degree of Aries and the Moon at four of Capricorn, with Mars, Jupiter and Saturn grouped inside twelve degrees of Taurus between them. Aries begins things; Capricorn counts what they cost; Taurus holds whatever it is handed. For a singer who took a part in an enormous film in her early twenties, the Aries Sun is the half that went at it and the Taurus group is the half that will still be there afterwards.

Nothing in this chart sits inside four tenths of a degree of exact, which makes it a loose birth with no single pressure point. The Moon sits in mild friction with Uranus at under half a degree, the closest thing here, and makes easy contact with Mars at three fifths. Venus sits in mild friction with that same Mars at over four fifths. Pluto alone was retrograde at her birth. For a performer this early in a career, a chart with nothing braced in it is room rather than a lack.

Jupiter came the whole way round to its Taurus starting point on 9 February 2024, at twenty three. Taurus asks what is actually there to show, and one circuit precedes it. For a career with one very large part on the record and a long way still to run, what is there to show is a fair question and an early one. Three planets gathered in Taurus, in a chart otherwise evenly spread, is where the keeping happens.